Link Sausage
Lots of tasty link sausage this morning:
For the cloud skeptics and former Sidekick (l)users, a good opinion piece:
Some argued with me last night that cloud computing is perfectly safe, it's the company deploying that you need to look to. OK. I accept that. Only thing is that Danger's been doing this pretty well since 2002 and at no point did I ever see a single warning from anyone that dealing with T-Mobile, Danger or Microsoft might be a bad idea when it comes to personal data solely living in the cloud.
My real question is how much is your data worth? Not the cost of the data streams you pay each month, but how much value does your data have to you personally? Recently, when I visited a client, I was asked to check my laptop at the door and I was asked how much my computer was worth. The guard was somewhat surprised at my stated value of my system. "Is this computer really worth a two million dollars?" he asked. "No," I replied. However, the information on it is worth that and perhaps more to me. Could you re-create every document or email you've ever written? Re-acquire every song in your collection or re-take every photograph in your catalog. Perhaps you could, but even if so, at what cost and what effort?
For the furries reading this, a robotic tail. Here's another article.
For the filk videographers, the Zoom H2 is now available almost everywhere for $250. Must... not... click... buy... button...
For those of you who are worried that the publishing industry may go the way of the music industry, here's more to worry about. Probably 99% of my reading is on the web these days, so, yeah.
... And here's an article on file-sharing sites teaming up to promite indie films.